Lionel Shriver is not one to shy away from moral issues in her novels and yet almost none of the 200 characters she's created have religious affiliations of any kind. This is despite the fact that she grew up in a deeply religious home....

Walker Percy's funniest novel, 'Love in the Ruins', is ultimately a mock-epic, an anti-heroic work. It exposes the worst follies and stupidities in these latter days of our personal and cultural self-abandonment....

Dorothy Sayers and Jane Austen understood the virtue of chastity as central to personal integrity and the foundation for true charity. Both recognised that love, unregulated by virtue, could lead to tragedy....

Two local Gippsland women pair to create an artwork to enter the Archibald Prize after finding similarities in their path to their crafts, painting and writing and how they are perceived by the public....